LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT FOR INCLUSIVE GALACTIC AUXILIARIES


PT----------------------------------------

ST ---------------------------------------

TT ---------------------------------------


Yr -------------------------------------

Qtr ------------------------------------

Wk -----------------------------------


Primary Tactic Contradiction

Sub-Tactic

Supplementary

Tertiary Strategic Objective

Procedure

Primary Tactic Contradiction Sub­Tactic Supplementary


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SECTION ONE:

CONTEXT



TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

YEARLY GALAXY JOURNEY CHART­ 2

GALAXY DESIGN 3

QUARTER INTRODUCTION­ 4

TACTICAL ACTUALIZATION­ 5

STRUCTURES CONTEXT 6







SECTION TWO:

SODALITY





SODALITY TIME FORMAT­ 7

SODALITY DECOR CONSTRUCT­ 8

GALACTIC DATA INTERCHANGE­ 9

SPIRITUAL CORPORATENESS:

Spirit Conversations 10

Solitary Office 11­13

INTELLECTUAL REFLECTION

Common Memory Studies 14

TACTICAL BATTLEPLANNING:

Spring Quarter Tertiaries­ 15,16

Tactical System Lecturettes­ 17­21

SODALITY NOTES 22



SECTION THREE:

COUNCILS


COUNCIL TIME FORMAT 23

SPRING COUNCIL DESIGNS 24

COUNCIL SCRIPTURE CONVERSATIONS 25



ADDENDUM: SPIRIT METHODS LECTURE


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Aux


Dynamic


Function


Winter


Spring


Summer


Fall






G

A

L




Spiritual

Corporateness

Spirit Lectures
Spirit Conversations
Scripture-Conversation
Psalms Conversation
A

C

T

I

C


Sodality

Dynamic


Intellectual

Reflection


Experiment

(Re)contexting

L.C.X. Documents


Common

Memory

Papers


Missional

Fiction

Book


Theological

Grounding

Book


A

U

X

I

L


Tactical

Battleplanning


Depth,

corporate workshops

on T/A method

T/A


Begin T/A year with

Cadre, Congregation

Tactics

T/A


Second Quarter T/A with

Cadre, Congregation,

Parish Tactics

T/A


Third Quarter T/A with

Cadre, Congregation,

Parish Tactics

T/A
I

A

R

Y



Council

Dynamic


Intensifying

the

Particular
Yearly and Quarterly

Contradictions/S.O.

Mod. I

Cong'l . Analysis

Regional Council


Contradictions/S.O.

Mod I

Advanced Training

Regional Council


Contradictions/S.O.

Mod I

Advanced Training

Regional Council


Contradictions/S.O.

Mod I

Advanced Training

Regional Council
C A

O U

N X

T I

' L

L .


Backup System

Dynamic


Encountering

the

Comprehensive


Galactic Ldrshp Exch

March Training School

Cont'l Auxiliary Mtg

Consults 1,4



Galactic Ldrshp Exch.

Consults 2,5


Summer

Research

Assembly


Galactic Ldrshp Exch

December Training School

Cont'l Auxiliary Mtg

Consults 3,6

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Week

One


SODALITY
Week

Two


COUNCIL
Spiritual
Tactical Battleplanning
Intellectual
Corporateness
For Week
In

Cadre
In

Cong
Reflection
TITLE
CONTENT


1


TRAGIC FIGURES


2


5


13


"CRISIS OF FAITH"



EARLY IN



TACTICAL



Complete modif. One


2


WATER


3


5


21,13


"YOU ARE ACCEPTED"
QTR.
PLANNING

COUNCIL
and warboard for

spring quarter


3


SUCCESS


4


2


16,18,21


"EVENT & STORY"



AS



ADVANCED


Recruit and participate

in the New Individual


4


HEROIC FIGURES


5


2,3


18,21


"FREEDOM"
ASSIGND
COURSE

PARTICIPATION
and New Society course

or other advanced courses


5


MUSIC


6


2


16,18,21


"SICKNESS UNTO DEATH"



AS



CONTINENTAL



Gather for re-contexting


6


NATURAL DISASTER


7


2,1,11


14,18


"SOCIAL PIONEER"
ASSIGND
GALACTIC

CONSULT
and perspective in

total L.C.X.


7


VULNERABILITY


8


2,3,1,10,11


14,21


"COMMUNITY"



NEAR



SUMMER



Decide the contradictions


8


COMPETITORS


9


1,6,3,10,11


15,16


"COMMON WORSHIP"
END QTR
CONTRA S.O.
and S.D. for summer

for each church


9


TEARS


10


2,6,3,10,1


15,16


"CHRIST OF HISTORY"



WEEK



REGIONAL



Participate in the spring


10


LAUGHTER


11


3,10,1


14,15,16


"MODEL BUILDING"
9
COUNCIL
quarter movement council

for your region


11


DEMONIC CHARACTERS


12


6,8,

10,11


14,15,18


"RESURRECTIONAL MAN"



12


QUARTERLY CELEBRATION


END OF

QTR


SUMMER MOD

ONE COUNCIL


Choose supplementaries,

complete warboards


13


HEIGHTS


1 of sum.


6,10,

1,11


15,14,

16/30


"PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH
for the summer quarter


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QUARTER INTRODUCTION

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CONTEXT FOR THE QUARTER

The spring quarter marks an important turn in the Local Church Experiment. Where as the basic thrust of the experiment, during the winter quarter was either the study of the Local Church documents or the completion of the 4th quarter of tactical actualization, the thrust of the spring is the 1st quarter tactics. For new churches this will be their 1st quarter of tactical actualization. For local churches who have been in the experiment this past year, the spring quarter marks the completion of their first year and the beginning of their second year of tactical actualization. All churches therefore who are doing tactical actualization should be doing the tactics for the first quarter of tactical actualization.

This quarter also marks the beginning of the "warboard" methodology of tactical actualization for all 36 Galaxies on the North American Continent. Each auxiliary unit needs to create its own warboard using the guidelines outlined in the Tactical Actualization Manual (Winter '72). The recommendation is that all of the warboards in any one galaxy be made of the same material, be the same size, and have the same imaginal design in order to symbolize the oneness of the galaxy and its corporate thrust in the task of reconstruction.



QUARTERLY CELEBRATIONS

The Week 12 Sodality is an appropriate time for celebration since no formal tertiary actualization takes place in Week 13. The celebration could thus take place in the sodality time allotment and should be considered as a normal corporate event for the whole galaxy. It should be planned as a very discontinuous happening. A journey designed for the whole evening is the crucial element which enables the celebration to be not just "another night out" but a great happening in the life of the galaxy. A spatial discontinuity for some or all of the celebration is also of high value. Hors d'oeuvres at the place of gathering, a play, movie, or physical activity (walking, dancing, etc.) and a late dinner in a private room of a restaurant provides one dynamic in which a journey can be planned. A dinner in a restaurant becomes more than an ordinary occasion if the galaxy bring its own decor, encourage "spontaneous" solos, poetry reading, speeches etc., and climaxes with corporate toasts. Whatever the evening, the critical value is to have a highly intentional structured evening that is fun, discontinuous, not too expensive, and one that begins to signal the kind of celebration that the reconstructed congregation of the future will enact.

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION ONE: CONTEXT

TACTICAL ACTUALIZATION

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For

"New"

Local

Auxiliaries


Turning on

the

whole

system

In initiating the tactical model, the crucial image is that of turning on the whole system in the first week. A tactical revolutionary implements his entire model far social change in his first move. Several key dynamics in this experiment enable this to happen: the first dynamic has to do with operating tactically relative to the major contradiction. Using the tactical model as a dynamic interplay of planning and action, to initiate actualization planning relative to the entire model is, in effect, initiating the system. Thus in creating the actual battleplans for Corporate Structures (5) and Liturgical Reformulation (13) and beginning systematically to deal with them in the first week, one is setting the system in motion. The second key comes into play at this point as the electric grids (master and local) enable one to see the dynamic interrelatedness of the entire system. As one does a particular supplementary activity, the related tertiary affects the tactic which affects the whole system. Tactics 5 and 13 together are one of the most powerful (in terms of relational effects) combinations in the system. Tactic 5 directly affects all 36 primary tactics and tactic 13 affects 34 of the 36 tactics. Implementing these two tactics together

in the first week thus "lights up" or "strikes" every other arena of the tactical system. Again, each of these tactics are actually initiated the moment a supplementary activity is done. The most important aspect of implementing tertiary tactics has to do with the cruciality of symbolization. Every tertiary which is called for in the first week must be symbolic-ally initiated. This means that in terms of a broad model, the system is implemented symbolically in a week and actually in a year. At every point in the timeline then, the accumulation of tactical maneuvers initiated and intensified serves to actualize the entire system.



For

"old"

Local

Auxiliaries


Tactical

System

Intensification
In implementing the tactical model in quarter one of the second year, the principal operating image is the intensification of the whole system. This will result from emphasis being placed upon two dynamics of the system: firstly, the tertiaries are to be "fired" into every part and every structure in the life of the congregation and cadre. With its acquired tactical skill and deeper insight into its local church, the auxiliary unit can now mount a much more comprehensive attack on the contradictions of its local church. Secondly, the increased strength of the cadre after a year in the experiment, plus the increased weight given to the congregation's responsibility for the parish, produce the possibility of a "push­pull" thrust at the congregation. Greater responsibility for the entire programmatic and spirit life of the congregation combines with greater emphasis on turning the congregation's attention toward the parish during this year. Thirdly, as the auxiliaries see the change in the contradictions in their church from the same time last year, they have a first­hand experience of the effect of the system. This provides a positive push toward continuing their weekly labors and using the most enabling supplementaries for the sake of the whole process of reconstruction.

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SODALITY/COUNCIL

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THE

SODALITY



SODALITY CONTEXT

The sodality is the basic structure through which the local auxiliaries meet weekly as the galactic auxiliary. The form and structure of this meeting is utterly crucial. It must be an intentional structure in which a regular pattern of events is established as the sodality time design. Copies of the format should be stenciled for each member of the galaxy. Welding galactic corporateness, grounding the Word in every dimension of the auxiliary member's lives, and creating the weekly battleplans for actualizing tertiaries in each local congregation are the crucial elements of the sodality. Well contexted singing, simple intentional decor, rituals, worship, and depth conversations are keys to welding corporateness and sustaining the auxiliary on the long march. The spirit conversations this quarter will be a tool to enable the auxiliaries to stand present to the awe in the midst of the mundaneness of their particular march. The study of common memory papers allows RS­I to be grounded again and again in the lives of the auxiliary. And finally battle planning becomes the place where the auxiliary focuses and timelines its concrete tactical procedures

for doing the Word in their local congregations.






THE

COUNCIL

COUNCIL CONTEXT

The weekend councils are the regular extensive periods in which tertiary actualization, advanced courses, continental consults and other movemental activities provide intensive in­depth training. Each weekend needs to be imaged as a time when radical decisions are being made by individuals and a new Galactic corporateness is being developed. Each council should be intentionally structured with a definite beginning and ending time. All tactical actualization sessions should be surrounded by spirit nurture in the form of well contexted singing, canonical hours, rituals, and great scripture conversations. Adequate plans for tactical actualization are created only by the man who is standing at the center of Being looking at his local situation. Thus, the spirit happenings in the midst of demanding planning sessions is the crucial dynamic of the weekend.


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SPIRITUAL

CORPORATENESS




6:45 Singing (and contextual remarks) (15 minutes)

Accountability & Absolution

Worship: Vespers (rotate thru days 1­7) (10)

Meal: Ritual & Prayer

Feast beginning

7:05 Spirit Conversation (20)

Celebrations (birth & marriage)

Data Interchange Reading/Assignments (10)

Announcements

Singing (assigned team clears table) ( 5)

7:45







INTELLECTUAL

REFLECTION



7:45

Context

Scheduled common memory study (45)

Conclusion

8:30






TACTICAL

BATTLEPLANNING





8:30

Context (Tactical Systems Lecturettes

4 x 4's)

Scheduled Mod II and Timelining (120)

Singing (regroup as Galaxy)

10:30 Solitary Office: Context (15)

Office

Assignments

Sendout

10:45

.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

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CONTEXT

The decor of the sodality continues to be a critical factor in the ongoing life and spirit of the Local Church Experiment. The emphasis relative to decor this quarter is on commonness throughout the galaxies of the North American continent. The following therefore constitutes the recommendation for the decor of the sodality for the spring quarter.



ALTAR

For the center of the room ­ on low table, covered with altar cloth that is the appropriate color relative to the church year. The altar should also include a figure or statue to symbolize the Mystery, incense to symbolize the ascending prayers, bread and wine to symbolize the Holy Presence, the candle to symbolize the Eternal Light, and the bowl and stones to symbolize the creatures.


CONTEXTUAL

CHART

The contextual chart symbolizes the Local Church Experiment as a tactical system and is thus an important part of the continuing decor. The printed charts are available through Regulation Centrum.


INCLUSIVE

CONTRADICTION

AND STRATEGIC

OBJECTIVE CHART

This chart also symbolizes the Local Church Experiment in its tactical dimension. This two­piece chart is available from Regulation Centrum. If space is limited, this is probably the more critical chart to use in the decor model relative to the week­by­week tactical battleplanning.


9 NRM

CHARTS

These charts are our best symbol and tool for the New Religious Mode and should be displayed at each meeting. They should be displayed in the characteristic way that indicates the journey to the center.


CONTINENTAL GRID WITH 36

GALAXIES

This chart will have to be created in the galaxy. It is important to hold the continental scope of the experiment and to symbolize the move from 20 galaxies to 36.



GLOBAL

GRID

With the priority on the "World" for the next four years and with the necessity of holding ourselves ever before the comprehensive spatially, this grid is critical. The centrum recommends the white tape on black board model that was used in our March meeting.


REGIONAL GRID

This grid is particularly critical for those galaxies in regions that have more than one galaxy. If space is limited, this grid would be third priority grid in the construct.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT GALACTTC DATA INTERCHANGE SECTION TWO: SODALITY

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CONTEXT

Every Galaxy's participation in the Galactic Data Interchange makes possible a weekly continental network of shared happenings and insights across the experiment. The schedule for sending in your reports corresponds to the Week II "Track" of your Galaxy, to enable consistent reporting. The categories of data will continue to be: SIGNAL EVENT, CONTRADICTION, IMPERATIVE, and MIRACLE STORY. The miracle story is an imaginal relating of a happening in the L.C. X. and is to be submitted with each report.


TRACK


EVEN­TRACK GALAXIES


ODD­TRACK GALAXIES



TIMING

Mail report by the Sodality meeting directly following your even­numbered Galaxy Council Week II's.

Mail report by the Sodality meeting directly following your even­numbered Galaxy Council Week II­s


AREA

NORTHWEST


Winnipeg


AREA

WEST

Denver San Francisco

Rapid City Seattle


Billings Los Angeles


AREA

SOUTH

Amarillo Miami

Houston Tulsa


Atlanta Oklahoma City

New Orleans



AREA

EAST

Pittsburgh Rochester

Boston Philadelphia

Manchester Portland

New York Washington



AREA

NORTHEAST

Montreal


Toronto


AREA

NORTH

Champaign - Urbana Indianapolis

Cincinnati Kansas City

Cleveland Peoria

Detroit


Chicago Minneapolis

Madison Rockford

Milwaukee

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

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WEEK
SUBJECT
THE ONE QUESTION
THE PEARL

1

TRAGIC FIGURES

Meditation


What is it that makes a man's life tragic?

The tragic figure is the one who refuses to see and live the tragic character of his own life.

2

WATER

Contemplation


When was your most memorable encounter with water?

Joy and fear are ontologically the same.

3

SUCCESS

Prayer


When have you encountered your success?

Success strikes fear because it reveals the self capable of astounding deeds.

4

HEROIC FIGURES

Meditation


Who do you look to as a hero?

The hero is a style that informs our own lives; a model out which we operate.

5
MUSIC

Contemplation


Why is music necessary?

Music is the form man has given to the beat of life that comes from beyond himself.

6
NATURAL

DISASTER

Contemplation


Where have you been encountered by

the (raw) power of natural phenomena?


You experience the terror of total destruction.

7

VULNERABILITY

Prayer


What is the pain of vulnerability?

My only security is eternal insecurity.

8

COMPETITORS

Meditation


How have those with whom you have competed changed you?

Competitors demand of you your power and acumen and push you beyond your apparent possibility.

9

TEARS

Contemplation


What is the depth meaning of tears?

One weeps over his own life; over his own dis-relation with God.

10

LAUGHTER

Prayer


What is the human possibility in laughter?

Laughter is the discontinuous release which allows new burst of creativity.

11
DEMONIC

CHARACTERS

Meditation


What is demonic about characters who are demonic?

Demons come into your head like saints, but are out to see you don't live an authentic life.

12
HEIGHTS

Contemplation

What is it about heights that makes a person more deeply human? One experiences raw terror as he stands before his own decision to die or live.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

SOLITARY OFFICE RUBRICS

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THE

PRELUDE

1. Each secures his solitary material and proceeds to his invisible space.

2. Each sets up his Rood Screen and lights his incense.

3. Each responds to the leader by repeating the ascription: . . .In the name of the Father

. . . In the name of the Son . . . In the name of the Holy Spirit...Amen.





THE

MEDITATION

1. Each directs his attention to the category of meditation.

2. Each writes the name of a saint for the season, and the name of a meditative friend for the category of the proper.

3. Each writes a sentence of reflection.

4. Each considers his life as poverty, to know one thing.




THE

CONTEMPLA-TION

1. Each directs his attention to the category of contemplation.

2. Each stares at his rood screen, drinks from his cup, and eats a morsel of bread, and listens to the music.

3. Each writes a sentence of reflection.

4. Each considers his life as chastity, to see and will one thing.




THE

PRAYER

1. Each directs his attention to the category of prayer.

2. Each writes his concerns for that category.

3. Each writes one prayer in the classical form.

4. Each considers his life as obedience, to do one thing.




THE

POSTLUDE


1. Each closes his rood screen and extinguishes his incense.

2. Each says in unison the Pater Noster.

3. Each goes forth to serve.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

SOLITARY PROPERS CHART

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CONTEXT

The categories in this chart are intended to guide and push the Auxiliaries in wrestling with the NRM in the Solitary Office. They are not intended to confine the meditation, contemplation, or prayer, but to provide a point from which to move in becoming self­ conscious relative to where one's existential experience is named by the formal/existential coordinates of the charts.


Week 1


Week 2


Week 3


Week 4


Week 5


Week 6

MED

Word

Bearing

Priest


Concerned Judge

Ever-present

Brother


Divine

Hosts


Destinal

Elector


Scorching

Avatar



WEEKS

1 - 6


CONT

Dangerous

Intrusion


Reforged

Transforma-tion


Luminous

Change


All Being

in Myself


Unexplain-

able Thereness


Frightful

Possibility


PRAY

Painful

Acknowledg-

ment


Splendid

Vices


Imploring

Succor


Promisorial

Offering


Utter

Awareness


Representa-

tional Sign



Week 7


Week 8


Week 9


Week 10


Week 11


Week 13

MED

Universal

Father


Eternal

Savior


Revered

Hero


Radiant

Guru


Persistent

Friend


Heavenly

Advocate



WEEKS

7 - 13


CONT

Sheer

Re-Creation


Being all

the Other


Cut-off

Unknown-

ness


Everlasting

Inescapab-

ility


Hallowed

Honour


All that

Ever was


PRAY

Manifold

Blessings


Heavenly

Sorrow


Abject

Helpless-

ness


Personal

Violation


Besetting

Sin


Unspeakable

Joy


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

SOLITARY OFFICE PROCEDURES

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NOTES


1. The form on the preceding page may be duplicated for each person if desired, rewritten into the first person. If not, the page may be used by the leader to direct the Galaxy.

2. The ascription is to be done chorally, the leader saying one phrase with the people repeating after him, ending with the two­fold Amen.

3. The Office begins with three bells before the ascription, then one to open Meditation, one for Contemplation, one for Prayer, one at the end of Prayer, and then three after the Pater Noster.

4. The Pater Noster is the Lord's Prayer without the phrase "For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory forever and ever."


Address

O, God

Description

who wast pleased to send on thy disciples the Holy

Spirit in the burning fire of thy love;

CLASSICAL

PRAYER

FORM


Petition

Grant that thy people be fervent in the unity of faith

Promise

that abiding in thee evermore, they may be found both steadfast in faith and active in work

Ascription

through Jesus Christ our Lord, AMEN.






IMAGES

1. Invisible space: My solitary shroud, my decisional solitary space, the place where I wrestle my wrestling with the Lord. My monk's cell.

2. Saint: The one member of the league whom I stand before this season. I will symbolize his address by writing his name in my breviary each day.

3. Friend: Additional member of the League whom I will stand before and who has brought me to this moment in history. (Write the name of a friend each day according to the category in Meditation.)

4. Reflection: A sentence or phrase on my existence as revealed to me through the categories of the NRM.

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

COMMON MEMORY STUDIES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL Page: 14




CONTEXT
This study construct is designed to enable the auxiliaries to deepen their grounding in the common memory of the movement and to provide an opportunity for indirect pedagogy relative to the spirit life of the galaxy. The teaching approach should emphasize brief contexting, thorough grounding in life, short courses on relevant movement/order wisdom, anecdote from our history, and intentional indirect address to spirit block. The principal method is a short, focused seminar.
ARENA
WEEK
STUDY PAPER
RECOMMENDED FOCUS
PRE-SODALITY ASSIGNMENTS


1

The Crisis of Faith, Bultmann

P. 12

Chart entire paper
THE EVENT

2

You Are Accepted , Tillich

P. 12

Chart P. 12 by sentences


3

The Event and The Story, Knox

P. 10, 19

Chart entire paper

Emphasis on 19­22



4

Freedom , Bonhoeffer

P. 3

Chart P. 3 by sentences
THE STYLE

5

Forms of the Sickness Unto

Death, Kierkegaard


Section III

P. 3­4, P .6


Chart Section III


6

The Church as Social Pioneer, Niebuhr

P. 1

P. 5


Chart last page


7

Community, Bonhoeffer

P 9­10

Chart Sections: "Not an ideal … Reality" & "A Spiritual … Reality"-­ 23 paragraphs total
THE COMMUNITY

8

Common Worship in the Life of the Church, Mathews
Threefold Structure of Christian Worship
Chart entire paper


9

The Christ of History, Mathews

The Jesus­Christ Event, P.12 ,18 and 19

Chart entire paper


10
Model Building Methods, West P. 13, 14, 18­20, 33­34 Chart P. 13­34
THE MISSION

11
Resurrectional Man, Mathews Resurrectional Style Chart entire paper


13
The Purpose of the Church, Niebuhr P. 4­7 Chart entire paper

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

SPRING QUARTER TERTIARIES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL Page: 15

SYST
COMP
SUB-COMP
Tact \ Wk
1
2
3
4
5
6



C


III


INTENSIF

TRAINING


2
19 Spirit Movement

20 Local Church

21 Minor Catechism

27 Symbolic Ground

22 Common Vision

32 Movement

Engagement

23 Operating Meth

24 Background Stu.

25 Corporate Polity

29 Leadership Prac.

A

D

R

E


INTERN

DISCIP


CADRE

ORGANIZA.



5
73 Primal Liturgies

74 Corp. Rituals

75 Common Symbols

76 Cadre Celebration

69 Common Mission

70 Meeting Structures

77 Corp. Discipline

78 Common Study

79 Life Together

65 Corp.Vision

66 Co-ord Domestic

67 Inter-fam models

68 Contextual Reltn

71 Polity: Principle

72 Operating Dyn

80 Missional Style





NEW

FAMILY


3

42 Worship Life




C


I

EMERG

GENERA


RISING

GENERAT.



16

246 Training

Construct


245 Staff Enlist.

245 Corp. Stance

248 Cov't Disc.

O

N

G

R

E

G



II

ESTAB.


ADULT

RE-ED



18
276 Inf. Commun.

281 Specific Strateg.

283 Ind. Enlist.

273 Presenta.Research

274 Cont. Propagation

275 Spec. Presenta.

282 Saturat. Publicity

284 Rec. Follow-up

178 Publicity

Construct

280 Recruiter

Teams

A

T

I

O

N
GENERA






21
323 Meeting Format

324 Corp. Style

331 Prog. Penetration

334 Comm. Celebra.

321 Visual Media

333 Miss. Entertain.

335 Coop. Work

336 Coop. Exper.

322 Space Design

325 Short Courses

330 Strat. Visit.

332 Indiv. Cult.

327 Listing Service

328 Prog. Reading

329 Tactical

Sermonizing





CONG.

FORM




13
194 Corp. Worship

201 Lit. Time

203 Primary Symbols

204 2nd Symbols

205 Rit. Meals

206 Collegial Rituals

207 Family Rituals

208 Ind. Rituals

193 Lit. Awakening

195 Exp. Services

196 Miss. Eucharist

197 Wedding Cerem.

198 Funeral Service

199 Passage Rites

202 Lit. Space


200 Extended

Ordination

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SPRING QUARTER TERTIARIES

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SYST
COMP
SUB-COMP
Tact \ Wk
7
8
9
10
11
12





INTENS

TRAINING


2
18 Religion's Function

26 Common Life

28 Mtg. Dynamic

17 Today's World

31 Religious House


30 Pastoral Prowess








C


INTERN

DISCIP


CADRE

ORGANIZA.



6

90 Vision Devel.
85 Leadership Assign.

87 Spirit Fellowhood


89 Common Worship

91 Pervasive Decor

A

D


NEW

FAMILY


3

36 Re-exp. Fam

44 Family Style

35 Youth Engagement

41 Trad. Celebration

33 Female Awaken

34 Male Address

37 Write Constitu.

40 Miss. Plan

43 Home Decor


38 Weekly Meeting

39 Family Patterns

48 Civilization Role

R

E





WORLD


8

113 Course Selection





EXTERN.
MISSION


10

145 Concrete Vision
147 Common Disc.

148 Symbolic Style

150 Course Recruit. 151 Course Enable.146 Edge Participa.

154 Continental

Involvement



MISSION


LOCAL


1
10 Exp. Liturgies

11 Creating Patterns

16 Teaching Liturgies


13 Cadre Partici.
9 Sunday Worship

12 Building Rituals

15 Signal Exp.


14 Cong. Leadership

7 Cong. Services


MINISTRY


11

169 Exp. Structures
170 Ldrship Roles

171 Cong. Care

172 Cong. Involve.


154 Scheduled

Courses


168 Theological

Grounding



C

O






14
223 Family Cooperat.

224 Pupil Engage.

221 Comm. Ground

22 Church Connectins

217 Operating

facilities

219 School Admin.

220 Plant Manage.

N

G

R


EMERG.

GENERA.


RISING

GENERA.


15

230 Trng. Cosntruct

231 Corp. Stance
232 Covt. Discipline

238 Fam. Programm


229 Staff Assign.
E

G

A

T


.




16
241 Progrm Rationale

243 Ed. Methods


242 Curriculum

Formats

244 Research Net

240 Functn Equipmnt

250 Operating Fac.

251 Admin. Patterns

I

O

N
.

ESTAB.



ADULT


18
277 Inclusive Models

278 Course Planning

285 Child Care


286 Domestic Serv.

287 Personal Asst.

288 Financial Aid

GENERA.
RE-ED


21
326 Parish

Publications

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

TACTICAL SYSTEMS LECTURETTES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL, 1971 Page 17



TACTICAL

THINKING


REVOLUTIONARY

METHODOLOGY


VALUES IN DEALING WITH

MANIFESTATION OF

CONTRADICTION


RELATIONSHIPS OF THE

CONTINENTAL TIMELINE

AND LOCAL SITUATION

prob. In church

-goal oriented
always

the spirit
power of

model
continental

design

revolutionary

dies in tactics


CONTRA-
where humanness

is negated


IMAGINAL
vision always

before you


REVOLUTION
local

concrete
CONTEXT
tactic is both

related & oneshot
DICTION
always

comprehensive
POWER
always hold

comprehensive
IS HOLDING

THE TENSION
neither is

renewal

tactics stand

on own bottom
but manifest

in particular
deal w dynamic

relationships
only tension is

rev: no static

goal tell

the gospel
comp. Contra.

Manifest concrt.
Theory is key

to hist/global
timeline is

overlay local


GOALS AND
strategies

context'l re-ed
PRINCIPLE

MANIFES-
contra. Has

principle aspect


THEORETICAL
hold

comprehensive


TIMELINE
timeline is

contentless local
STRATEGY
structural

re-formulation
TATION

TACTIC
aspect is met

with tactic
DESIGN
futuric:

on behalf of
ACTUALIZA-

TION
timeline is

objective

spirit

re-motivation
tactic pressures

total contra.
Intentional

disciplined
loc. sit. is

data-use of T/L

tactic stands

on own bottom
not flip of

contradiction
design must

apply to situatn
local informs

comprehensive

in syst is also

utterly related


STRATEGIC
not a

goal


PRACTICAL
disciplined

practic is comp.


LOCAL
local is the

content
TACTICS
puts press. On

sit. to brk open
OBJECTIVE
obj. w/in

overall vision
APPLICATION
comp. Is met

at concrete
SITUATION
allows local to

address system

not

content
not

"how to"
alter tactic

from model
loc. contr. never

reducible immed.

Tactics must

relate to whole
tertiary inter-

relatedness
strike at the

contra. first
tertiary

contentlessness


DYNAMIC
many levels

of tactics


ALL AT
electric

grid
REVOLU-

TIONARY
rev. primarily

in local units


PRACTICAL
supplementary

is act'nal level
RELATIONS
electric

grid
symbolize

whole system
PRINCIPLE
revolutionize

from within
KEYS
battleplans are

"doing" rev.

tactics are the

renewal not prep.
sym. compre.

at beginning


perpetual
experiment is

the model

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

TACTICAL SYSTEMS LECTURETTES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL, 1971 Page 18



SPRING

QUARTER


RATIONAL

COMPLEX


#5 CORPORATE

STRUCTURES


LITURGICAL

REFORMULATION

#13

cadre and

congregat'n only
intensify

internal life
cadre:

training unit
congregation:

program unit

major objective

develop troops
SCHOOLING

IN
emphasis on

discipline
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
internal discipl.

cadre organiz.
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
impact exist'g

chur.cong.forms
CONTEXT
cong: creating

troops
INTERNAL

DISCIPLINE
basic context

and structures
CONTEXT
basic

training
CONTEXT
established

generation

cadre: maturing

troops
enablement

for mission
contextual

re-education
structural

reformulation

cadre training

& discipline
continuing recov.

litur. heritage
meeting

structures
recapture mean'g

of worship


OVERVIEW
pushing the

developing cadre
TRAINING

IN
continued devel.

common memory
PRIMARY

TACTIC
symbolic/

internal life
PRIMARY

TACTIC
new forms in

symbolic life

cong. Signs

and strategy
EXTERNAL MISSION
rehearsing on

behalf glob.resp.
GESTALT
practical

life
GESTALT
cast in mis-

sional context

raising signs

and troops
further ground'g

corp. pastorate
missional

life
rehumanize

corporate

structures
recruitment
cut over against

individualism
power of

symbols


KEY
continued cadre

crash education


IMPACTING
honoring

congregation


TACTICAL
build

corporateness


TACTICAL
corporate worship
OPERATION
recruitment in

congregation
EXISTING

CHURCH
demonstrate

commitment
THRUST
structured

care
THRUST
liturgical

time/space

symbolic

signs (lit)
impact,

not program
enable one

missional thrust
individual/

group rites

deepening the

spirit life
freeing parents

i.e. wknd recru.
Polity

structures
old liturgical

form


CADRE
re-prioritizing

family life
PREPARING

THE
authentic child

engagement


ARENAS OF
corp. economic

enablement


ARENAS OF
new

forms
DEVELOP-

NENT
globalizing

movem't train'g
EMERGING CHURCH
sign of

real education
ACTION
seminary

study
ACTION
sacraments

re-tooling the

corp. leadership
preparing

curriculum
daily

symbolic life
secondary rites

e.g., birthdays

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

TACTICAL SYSTEMS LECTURETTES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL, 1971 Page 19



#21 INFORMAL

REEDUCATION


#18 WEEKEND

RECRUITMENT


#2 CRASH

EDUCATION


#16 WEEKEND

SCHOOL

congregation -

prog. unit
congregation -

prog. unit
cadre - training unit
broadening vision


TACTICAL
impact exist'g

chrch/adult re-ed.
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
impact exist'g

church adult ed.
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
internal discipl/ intensive trng.
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
religious

training
SYSTEM

CONTEXT
established

generation
CONTEXT
established

generation
CONTEXT
basic

training
CONTEXT
cultural

training

contextual

reeducation
contextual

reeducation
contextual

re-education
family

impact

visual media
educatl. Climate for recruitment
inclusive

vision
children's

curriculum


PRIMARY
space design
PRIMARY

TACTIC
cultivation for recruitment
PRIMARY

TACTIC
theoretical images
PRIMARY

TACTIC
staff

training
TACTIC

GESTALT
meeting formats
GESTALT
recruitment procedures
GESTALT
operating methods
GESTALT
establishing

corporate style
recruitment enablement
practical

tools
maintaining

corporate mode
youth

and adults
new operating images
imaginal

education


TACTICAL
operating images


TACTICAL
create renewal forces


TACTICAL
common

mind


TACTICAL
staff

expertise
THRUST
program dynamic
THRUST
enable depth human involvemt
THRUST
corporateness
THRUST
practics

enablement

missional corporateness
provide adequate means of involv.
Practical

skills
adult

participation

missional entertainment
prepare way
corporate

study
curriculum

building


ARENAS OF
communal celebration


ARENAS OF
recruitment machinery


ARENAS OF
polity

structures


ARENAS OF
staff

development
ACTION
cooperative

work
ACTION
enlisting the troops
ACTION
leadership

training
ACTION
practical

management

corporate experiences
structural enablement
training structures
parental

support

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

TACTICAL SYSTEMS LECTURETTES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL, 1971 Page 20



MISSIONAL

FAMILY #3


LITURGICAL

LEADERSHIP #1


WEEKDAY

SCHOOL #14


CONGREGATIONAL

MINISTRY #11
cadre training

unit
cadre training

unit
congregation program unit
cadre training unit
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
internal discipl.

new family
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
external

mission
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
emerging church

rising/initiate
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
external

mission
CONTEXT
continuing

nurture
CONTEXT
local

church
CONTEXT
spiritual remotivation
CONTEXT
local

church

spiritual remotivation
structural reformulation
developing personal images
structural reformulation

redesigning family style
revitalize worshp

symbolic life
imaginal educatn program
pioneer new ministry model
PRIMARY

TACTIC
re-imaging family roles
PRIMARY

TACTIC
dev. Liturgical leadership skills
PRIMARY

TACTIC
licensed

pre-school
PRIMARY

TACTIC
sign as

corporate clergy
GESTALT
structures/model for mission
GESTALT
study traditional

worship forms
GESTALT
enabling your children
GESTALT
serve congregatn as spiritual leadrs

symbolic life/ spirit care
experiment with contemp. forms
forging basic life images
enable congregtn as nurturg teachrs

strong corp. missional units
basic education

fundam'tl liturgy
primal

education
create new pastoral model


TACTICAL
reimage family relation to soc.


TACTICAL
development of spirit deeps


TACTICAL
frees mothers for mission


TACTICAL
training in fundam'tal pract
THRUST
on behalf

global style
THRUST
experiment with traditional forms
THRUST
imaginally educate child
THRUST
deepening the spirit life

sustained by decision
training in liturgical pract.
train teachers in imaginal educatn
developing a cong. ministry

family signs and symbols
comprehensive study models
pre-school structures
cong. leadership roles


ARENAS OF
renewal of internal life


ARENAS OF
liturgical leaders

assignments


ARENAS OF
curriculum construct


ARENAS OF
spirit

exercises
ACTION
mission beyond the family
ACTION
worship/office service constructs
ACTION
community relationships
ACTION
symbolic life practics

family prep. through study
context/rationale for symbol/story
physical facilities and staff
training in models/methods

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION TWO: SODALITY

TACTICAL SYSTEMS LECTURETTES

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL, 1971 Page 21



#10 GLOBAL

MOVEMENT


#6 QUARTERLY

RETREATS


#15 WEEKNIGHT

SCHOOL


#8 REGIONAL

TEACHING
cadre training unit
cadre training unit
congregation program unit
cadre training unit
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
external mission world-wide
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
internal discipl. cadre organizatn
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
emerging church rising/initiate
TACTICAL

SYSTEM
external mission world-wide
CONTEXT
inclusive

church
CONTEXT
basic

training
CONTEXT
contextual

re-education
CONTEXT
inclusive

church
contextual

re-education
structural reformulation
broadening intent. Arenas

contextual

re-education
create lucid churchmen
evaluation machinery
enable parent involvement

teaching

regional courses
PRIMARY

TACTIC
comprehend universal church
PRIMARY

TACTIC
basic

planning
PRIMARY

TACTIC
inclusive imaginal progrm
PRIMARY

TACTIC
enabling

weekend courses
GESTALT
necessity of global involvemt
GESTALT
spirit

nurture
GESTALT
eliciting social responsibility
GESTALT
practical

cadre training
unmistakable locl

renewl commitmt
discontinuous celebration
school age children

spirit movement collegial relation
deals with reduced context
experience own unique wisdom
provides care structures

theological clarity


TACTICAL
push comprehen. in congregation


TACTICAL
participate in new fellowhood


TACTICAL
depth growth curriculum


TACTICAL
train local future pedagogues
THRUST
continental involvement
THRUST
develop common memory
THRUST
builds family miss'nl involvmt
THRUST
instill common methodologies
vision of new humanness
enabling distance from immediacy
develops youth & adult leadership

advance pedagogical style
world-wide movement
corporate

spirit life
staff

assignments

movement courses


ARENAS OF
local/regional contacts


ARENAS OF
common

symbolic life


ARENAS OF
staff

assignments


ARENAS OF
pedagogical development
ACTION
regional

courses
ACTION
missional

study life
ACTION
church participation
ACTION
enablement skills
continental

assignments
care through enablement life

community engagement
individual training/study

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTON TWO: SODALITY

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL page: 22

SODALITY NOTES
Spiritual

Corporateness

  1. Singing

  1. Accountability

Absolution

  1. Worship

  1. Meal

  1. Meal rituals

  1. Spirit Conversation

  1. Celebrations



  1. Data Interchange

  1. Announcements
These may be used by the Prior as a basis for his own continuing contextualization of the Sodality construct.

Initiates sodality, corporate self­consciousness, recalling missional stance, direct group spirit.

Actual accountability articulates decisional presence of total body. Those absent are accounted for.

Rehearsal of faith stance, life posture in the Word.

A fundamental symbol of humanness, context for sodality.

Self­conscious marking of the opening and closing of the meal, decision to be present to the meal from beginning to end.

A point of recovery of ontological self­consciousness.

The personal events celebrated hold the significance of the individual as related to the universal. The birthday as the particular unrepeatable uniqueness of the individual, celebrated in the midst of all mankind. The celebration of the marriage vows is to rehearse again the decisional aspect, to hold accountable to the faithfulness of the vows and to absolve the past as the Lord's gift.

Reading of report, continental/global contextualization. Include a two­minute galactic brainstorm of signal event, contradiction, imperative, and miracle story, to be gestalted and written by assigned person every other week.

For the corporate life of the body.

Intellectual

Reflection

  1. Context

2. Study




The study dynamic is always related through the Word to the mission.

Pushing the knowing dimension to the edge, expression of humanness on behalf of all.

Tactical

Battleplanning

  1. Context

2 . Solitary Office

3. Sendout . . .



Setting the tactical action in relation to development of local church, entire L.C.X. and the future of civilization.

The final depth push enabling the appropriation of interior life and stance in the decision to be mission.

The final context articulating the comprehensive, futuric intentional style of the Galaxy.

LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION THREE: COUNCIL

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL Page: 23

COUNCIL TIME FORMAT
SATURDAY

The spirit life of the Councils

consists of the Canonical Hours

throughout and scripture

6:00
Meal: Songs ­ Prime Office

Scripture Conversation

Break

conversations at each meal save for

the concluding Common Meal. The

entire format will be used

during the tactical planning,

summer contradictions/strategic

objectives, and Summer Mod I

Councils only, since the other

Week II's in the council con-

struct have their own structures

and spirit life.


7:45

.Workshop




Terce Office

Break


12:00

Meal: Songs ­ Sext Office

Scripture Conversation

Provided on a following page is

a schedule of Luke readings and

appropriate tangential intro-

ductory spins for each, laid

out according to meals and Week

II 's . These conversations are

not out to interpret the scrip­

tures but are to enable the

galaxy to experience their

experience of the Gospel by

participating in tangential

1:00


3:30

Workshop

None

Workshop Plenary


Break

conversation using the opening

spins as images to enable the

conversation.

5:00

6:00


Common Meal
FRIDAY

Dinner: Songs, Accountability/Absolution

Vespers Office

Spirit Conversation


8:00

8:30


10:45


Contextual Lecturette

Tactical Workshop


Compline Office

The Canonicals enable the galaxy to

reappropriate their time, by

participating in the ancient wisdom

of our fathers. Contexting each

hour using the center fold construct

and assigning the hours to

be done during the night enable

this to occur.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPERIMENT SECTION THREE: COUNCIL

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL Page: 24

SPRING COUNCIL DESIGNS



OVERVIEW

In order to authenticate the effectiveness of the Local Church Experiment as the means of renewal it is imperative that all members of the galaxy participate fully in all aspects of the experiment, in particular in each of the six Week II Councils. The councils take place for each galaxy on an "odd track " or "even track" schedule.


1

TACTICAL

PLANNING

COUNCIL

The first week II of the Galaxies tactics (not scheduled for an advanced course or consultation) needs to be utilized for completion of Mod. I for the spring quarter, construction of war boards, creation of decor, and other tactical "catch­up". See the T/A Manual.


2

ADVANCED

COURSE PARTICIPATION


Recruitment and participation in the New Individual and New Society course (if scheduled for the galaxy) or participation in another advanced course as a corporate galactic event.


3

CONTINENTAL GALACTIC

CONSULT


A time to hear what is happening across the continent and to deal with the issues facing the Experiment. Regulation Centrum and a Galactic Interchange couple will do the Consult.


4

CONTRADICTIONS/ STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

COUNCIL


The contradictions and strategic objectives for the Summer quarter for each church are written during a Week II Council in mid quarter, using the Tactical Actualization Manual.


5

REGIONAL

COUNCIL


The attendance of the galactic auxiliaries dramatizes the one

missional thrust of the Region and the Movement toward the

local church on behalf of the world.



6

MOD I

COUNCIL

Each congregation chooses the supplementaries for the 11 new Tactics, completes the tactical actualization cards, and places the appropriate 144 cards on their war board in

readiness for summer quarter. Use the T/A Manual.


LOCAL CHURCH EXPBRIMENT SECTION THREE: COUNCIL

SPRING QUARTER MANUAL Page 25

COUNCIL SCRIPTURE CONVERSATIONS


Counci1


Tactical Planning Council


Summer C/S.O. Council


Summer Mod I Council



FRIDAY

NIGHT












Ferris Wheel,

Stop in Mid­air








Luke 4




Awe as Draft Around

Ankles








Luke 9:10­36




Blown Sideways on Road,

Enigmatic Push








Luke 22:1­37






SATURDAY

MORNING



Road Runner and Coyote

Fall off Ledge







Luke 5


Awe as St. Elmois

Fire (static, elec­

tricity sparks, just

before lightning

strikes)




Luke 12:13 ­ 13:35


Skiing and Low Branch

or Hidden Rock







Luke 22:39 ­ 23:12





SATURDAY

NOON






Awe as Objective

Cloud







Luke 8:26 - 9:9


Awe as Wet Sand,

Bubbling Spring in

Desert






Luke 19:1 ­ 20:8


Dream of Falling,

Radical Emptiness







Luke 23:13 ­ 49